=== What's this gopherhole about? ===

I've been keeping a web-based wiki for a few years, as a place to
store my useful tips and tricks, reminders and other such trivia.
[0]

It runs using Dokuwiki [1] and is quite a nice setup. But nobody
else reads it (AFAIK) so is it necessary to have it available on
the WWW?

I found Gopher last year and I'm taken with it. The simplicity of
basic text files. The ability to store (and make available for
download) any other files. The small community surrounding it.

So why not abandon my bloated WWW wiki and move over to Gopher
completely?

I've been "feeding" my wiki for 4 years, so there's quite a lot of
stuff there. It's not simple to duplicate it all here. So I won't
even try.

But.... I'm not going to add more new things to the wiki.
Everything new will go here, on Gopher. And slowly I'll move across
bits & pieces of information from the wiki.


===== [b|ph]logging

I tried a www based blog recently, first using the Blog plugin of
Dokuwiki, then using "Chyrp-lite" and then "PureBlog". All have
their good and bad points. And even these "simple" blog platforms
can make you spend more time on appearance and visual style than on
writing.

So I've decided to just use Gopher for this, too. 

I won't be phlogging often - as a separate process to writing
various pages on specific topics that can be put in their relavant
places - but from time to time I'll have something "general" to say
as a phlog post. Most of what will be here is topic-specific and
will be in one of the other areas of the gopherhole.

Onward and downward (gopher's burrow downwards, no?)

== J 2026-05-07

[0] https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki
[1] https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki